Safety-hook.



A. C. SCHMIDT.

SAFETY HOOK.

APPLICATION FILED 0E(;.2|. 1915.

Patented Feb. 6, 1917.

ALBERT C. SCHMIDT, OF MELVIN, IOWA.

SAFETY-HOOK.

Application filed December 21, 1915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT C. SCHMIDT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Melvin, in the county of Osceola and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Hooks, of which breast chain or other article or part of the harness may be quickly coupled to and uncoupled from the hames, while at the same time the coupling means will not be acci.

dentally disconnected when in use and which may be disconnected only by disposing the coupling means in an unusual position, a position which will not be naturally assumed by the parts when in use.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claim; and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention Figure 1 is a view of the improved device from one side; Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1 with the parts arranged at right angles to the position shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a plan view with the stock of the device in section on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The improved device comprises a stock or body portion 10 bent into an eye 11 at one end to receive a coupling member, such as a split ring 12, whereby the device may be coupled to a ring or other similar device 13 which is in turn adapted to be connected to the snap or other portion of the hame of a harness, the hames not being shown as they form no part of the present invention.

At its lower end the stock 10 is bent into a lateral. hook 1 1, the bill? portion of which is turned over toward the stock 10, as illustrated at 15, and thence continued downwardly as shown at 16,with the terminal 17 of the down- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 6, 1917.

Serial No. 68,033.

wardly directed portion 16 a considerable distance below the lower line of the hook portion 14. The portion 15 of the device is spaced a considerable distance from the hook portion 1 1 and likewise from the stock 10, so that an interval or space, indicated at 18, is left between the downwardly directed portion 16 and the body hook and of the stock. By this arrangement a relatively large ring 19 may be disposed over the terminal 15 of the hook, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 and engaged with the loop of the hook with the terminal 17 extending below the upper side of the hook and thus effectually prevent displacement of the hook except when disposed in an unusual position, a position which the ring cannot be made to assume when in use, especially when strain is applied to the ring 19; The coupling chain, a portion of which is represented at 20, is connected to the ring 19, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and when in use the chain will be coupled to the neck yoke of the harness in the usual manner.

By extending the downwardly directed portion 16 in advance of the line of the hook portion 14:, accidental displacement of the ring 19 is effectually prevented, as no matter how severely the harness may be shaken about the ring it will not'be displaced from the hook. The eye 11 is preferably formed by welding the terminal 21 t0 the body of the stock 10, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, thus materially increasing the strength, and reducing the expense of manufacture of the improved device.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is As a new article of manufacture, a safety hook formed from a single length of metal having an intermediate portion thereof bent ALBERT o. SCHMIDT. 1. 8.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

0 Washington, I G. 

